Ornamento

Using Ornamento

There are four ways to use Ornamento to find related images.

Search Ornamento

Click on Search Ornamento to open the Advanced Search box. Here you can search by image classification (ornaments, ornate letters, etc), IconClass category (46A122: armorial bearings, etc), ornamental letter (A, B, etc), Country, or by Title/keyword, IB edition number, place of printing, and date. Please note that not all images in Ornamento have been categorised.

Browse All Images

Click on the Browse All Images button to view the full set of images in Ornamento. This opens in a new window, and from here there are a few options available.

Click on an image to launch the image matching software. From there you can select a region on the page to match with other similar images in Ornamento, or you can upload your own image to do a matching search. You can also view the full sized image.
Click on the IB identifier to view the descriptive record of the original volume in Iberian Books.

Match an Image

Click on Match an Image to launch the image matching software. This opens in a new window. Here you can upload your own image to match to images in Ornamento, or paste in the URL of an image you wish to match. You can also browse all of the images in Ornamento, and link to the descriptive record in Iberian Books for the volume the image is from.

From Iberian Books

There is a link in the top right hand menu to Iberian Books . When you do a search in Iberian Books , many records that are linked to digital copies of the exemplars also contain examples of the ornamentation and illustrations within. Scroll down to the Indexed graphical elements in this document tab in the record, and from there click on the Ornamento search icon . This loads the image into ImageMatch, and from there you can find similar content.

Please note: Ornamento is currently in test mode. Further functionality and capabilities will be made available when ready.

Sample records from Iberian Books with ornamentation

Ornamento ImageMatch

Part of the Ornamento pilot project is the implementation of the ImageMatch technology, developed by Professor Andrew Zisserman and Relja Arandjelovic of the University of Oxford Department of Engineering Science’s Visual Geometry Group, in collaboration with Giles Bergel (Oxford Faculty of English); Alexandra Franklin and Richard Ovenden (Bodleian Library).

Development and maintenance of VGG Image Search Engine (VISE) is supported by EPSRC programme grant Seebibyte: Visual Search for the Era of Big Data (EP/M013774/1) (Dutta, A. and Arandjelovic, R. and Zissermann, A., 2016)

You can read more about the development of the ImageMatch technology, as utilised by the Bodleian Ballads on their website .

Ornamento Pilot

A demonstration version of Ornamento is now live. The repository contains close to a quarter of a million images, drawn from a growing number of partner institutions.

As of August 2018, the repository contains 149,154 ornate letters, 4,050 armorial bearings, 41,000 ornaments, 4,401 illustrated borders, 8,088 pages of music, 1,350 portraits, 4,179 diagrams and 1,331 printers’ devices.

Ornamento Podcast

Professor Thomas Cummins (Harvard),
‘Writ Large: Printing, Painting, and Conversion in 16th Century America’

Keynote lecture at the conference: Typography, Illustration and Ornamentation in The Early Modern Iberian Book World, 1450-1800, held at Marsh’s Library in Dublin, Ireland on 24-25 May 2018.